[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1531

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I borrowed the terms from here:

http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Class-BlackHole-0.04/lib/Class/BlackHole.pm

http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Class-WhiteHole-0.04/lib/Class/WhiteHole.pm


Andrei

On 05/22/2010 10:03 PM, Shin Fujishiro wrote:
> Walter Bright<walter at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Shin Fujishiro wrote:
>>>
>>> Sure!  I just couldn't use the terms because I wanted to allow users to
>>> inject arbitrary implementation.  I'll add BlackHole and WhiteHole soon.
>>> Ah, I wonder why I couldn't think of alias!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I googled whitehole and blackhole and couldn't find any association with
>> programming. Is the terminology correct? Are we inventing terms?
>
> Probably we are inventing terms.
>
> I read a slideshow uploaded by Andrei which introduced "black holes"
> and "white holes" as models of auto-implemented classes. I borrowed the
> idea from there, so I'm following the original terminology.
>
> Indeed, the terms are a bit too astronomy. And there should be more
> descriptions in the doc if these terms are used. But I'm not sure how to
> describe this... The mentioned slodeshow file seems already deleted,
> and I have no local copy.
>
> Shin
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